Abstract
What one has seen in de Man has been transformed into a commonplace: we find in moments of contradiction the established and institutionalised features of our intellectual landscape - as ‘irony’ and ‘ambiguity’ were half a century ago - and which are now attaining their own form of domestication. What has been called ‘absurdist criticism’ has found its proper repertoire of moves, its canonical concepts, in ‘indeterminacy’, ‘undecidability’, ‘impossibility’, etc. A short précis by Leo Bersani can serve as a classic statement:
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